This Ear Tastes Like Ear

I'm going to a minor league game tonight. I love minor league baseball. I love the parks, I love the fans and I love all the extra curricular nonsense surrounding the games. All that being said, there is no way I am as passionate about it as Ogden, UT's finest son, Donnie Haskins.

Two Ogden neighbors got into a fight after a minor league baseball game that ended with one them biting off a part of the other's ear.

The two men, Kevin Olsen, 54, and Donnie Gaskins, 41, had returned to Gaskins home from the Ogden Raptors baseball game late

Ogden Police Lt. Scott Sangberg says Gaskins responded by striking Olsen in the face several times and then clamping down on his ear with his teeth and pulling back with enough force to rip off a part of the ear.

Gaskins was booked into the Weber County Jail and is facing charges of assault causing mayhem, assault of an officer, possession of marijuana, intoxication and resisting arrest, Sangberg said.

Well, Sangberg was a bright-eyed rookie fresh out of the academy when it happened. Routine welfare call. Someone calls 911 to see if grandma's alright. Maybe she wasn't. Maybe she'd been decomposing on the bathroom floor for weeks -- didn't matter to Sangberg. It'd only been six weeks, but he'd already seen worse, and he'd see worse again.

But the mother. The child. The blood.

It was about that time Sangberg started with the whiskey. And Mrs. Sangberg, who was a cold lady when they'd met, started staying out, days at a time.